Tom Lane wrote:
> You make a good point though --- I'm a bit tempted to make it default
> to UNICODE for the Red Hat build, since Red Hat is pretty gung-ho on
> UTF8 support these days.
Recall that in 8.0 the default encoding will be derived from the locale.
So if the postgres account has a reasonable locale set (presumably
chosen somewhere during the system installation), everything will work
out.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/